The Incidence and Survival Trends of Thymic Malignancies

Jonathan Riess, MD, MS, Assistant Professor of Medicine, Hematology and Oncology, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses a population-based study of incidence and survival trends of 1261 thymic malignancies from the California Cancer Registry.

Clinical Pearls:

• The California Cancer Registry is reported to SEER.
• Thymic malignancies are rare tumors but they are the most common tumor of the interior mediastinum.
• The goal of the study was to get a better sense of prognostic and clinical factors as well as changes in incidence trends of this malignancy.
• The study found that the incidence of thymic malignancies is increasing, but it is unknown if this increase is due to increased detection or other factors.

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